PictureEffects 5.9 review

PictureEffects is a REALbasic plugin to do picture manipulation on 32bit images.

License: Demo OS: Mac OS X File size: 9701K Developer: Einhugur Software Buy Now Price: $99.00 Updated: 27 Dec 2006

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PictureEffects is a REALbasic plugin to do picture manipulation on 32bit images. Main features: Brightness, Contrast, ColorFilter, Blend, Rotate, FlipHorizontal, FlipVertical, GrayScale, Invert, Sharpen, Smooth, Blur, EdgeDetect, Emboss, MeanRemoval, Twirl, Surface Wave, PageCurl and a ProgressProc class for every filter. The PictureEffects also supports masking for most of the effects.

Requirements:
REALbasic 5.5 or later.

What's New:
Re-wrote the Desaturate algorithm. The new version makes full use of machines with multiple CPU cores. The algorithm supports up to 4 CPU cores (On MacOS X and Windows platforms).
The Desaturate algorithm can work in place on the source image and in non- in place mode.
Re-wrote the Rotate algorithm. The new version makes full use of machines with multiple CPU cores. The algorithms supports up to 4 CPU cores. (On MacOS X and Windows platforms).
Added PictureEffectsCPUUsage constants module.
Added two new example projects that demonstrate experiments with multi-CPU core features.